Supplementary Provisions, Article 37
第三十七条
An insured person under the national health insurance program who is found, by having been admitted before this Act comes into effect to a facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (21) of the former Long-Term Care Insurance Act (limited to those with an admission capacity of 29 persons or less; hereinafter in this Article referred to as a "small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly"), to have changed their domicile to the location of that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly, and who is found to have been domiciled, at the time of admission to that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly, in the area of another Municipality (meaning a Municipality other than the Municipality in which that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly is located), is, for as long as the person continues to be admitted to that small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly on or after the date of enforcement, an insured person under the national health insurance program provided by that other Municipality, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5 of the National Health Insurance Act; provided, however, that this does not apply to an insured person under the national health insurance program who has been continuously hospitalized, etc. (meaning the hospitalization, etc. prescribed in Article 116-2, paragraph (1) of the Revised National Health Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) in two or more hospitals, etc. (meaning the hospitals, etc. prescribed in Article 116-2, paragraph (1) of the Revised National Health Insurance Act; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) and who is found to have sequentially changed their domicile to the locations of the last hospital, etc. (meaning the hospital, etc. in which the person was hospitalized, etc. immediately before being admitted to the small-scale facility covered by public aid providing long-term care to the elderly in which the person is currently admitted (hereinafter in this Article referred to as the "current facility of admission"); hereinafter in this paragraph referred to as the "last hospital, etc.") and the current facility of admission, respectively, by being hospitalized, etc. in each of the last hospital, etc. and the current facility of admission (referred to as a "continuously hospitalized insured person" in the following paragraph).
この法律の施行前に旧介護保険法第七条第二十一項に規定する介護老人福祉施設（入所定員が二十九人以下であるものに限る。以下この条において「小規模介護老人福祉施設」という。）に入所をすることにより当該小規模介護老人福祉施設の所在する場所に住所を変更したと認められる国民健康保険の被保険者であって、当該小規模介護老人福祉施設に入所をした際他の市町村（当該小規模介護老人福祉施設が所在する市町村以外の市町村をいう。）の区域内に住所を有していたと認められるものは、施行日以後引き続き当該小規模介護老人福祉施設に入所をしている間は、国民健康保険法第五条の規定にかかわらず、当該他の市町村が行う国民健康保険の被保険者とする。ただし、二以上の病院等（新国保法第百十六条の二第一項に規定する病院等をいう。以下この条において同じ。）に継続して入院等（新国保法第百十六条の二第一項に規定する入院等をいう。以下この条において同じ。）をしている国民健康保険の被保険者であって、現に入所をしている小規模介護老人福祉施設（以下この条において「現入所施設」という。）に入所をする直前に入院等をしていた病院等（以下この項において「直前入院病院等」という。）及び現入所施設のそれぞれに入院等をすることにより直前入院病院等及び現入所施設のそれぞれの所在する場所に順次住所を変更したと認められるもの（次項において「継続入院等被保険者」という。）については、この限りでない。
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 5 of the National Health Insurance Act, a continuously hospitalized insured person who falls under any of the following items shall be an insured person covered by the national health insurance program provided by the Municipality set forth in the relevant item:
継続入院等被保険者のうち、次の各号に掲げるものは、国民健康保険法第五条の規定にかかわらず、当該各号に定める市町村が行う国民健康保険の被保険者とする。
an insured person who is found to have sequentially changed their domicile to the locations of the respective hospitals, etc. by undergoing hospitalization, etc. in each of two or more hospitals, etc. in which the person has been continuously under hospitalization, etc., and who is found to have been domiciled in the area of another Municipality (meaning a Municipality other than that in which the current facility of admission is located) at the time when the person underwent hospitalization, etc. in the first of the two or more hospitals, etc.: that other Municipality;
an insured person under the national health insurance program who is found, through undergoing hospitalization, etc. continuously in another hospital, etc. from one of two or more hospitals, etc. in which the person has been continuously under hospitalization, etc. (hereinafter in this item referred to as "continuous hospitalization, etc."), to have made a change of domicile from a place other than the location of that one hospital, etc. to the location of that other hospital, etc. (hereinafter in this item referred to as a "Specified Change of Domicile"), and who is found to have been domiciled in the area of another Municipality (meaning a Municipality other than that in which the current facility of admission is located) at the time of the continuous hospitalization, etc. pertaining to the most recent Specified Change of Domicile: that other Municipality.
With regard to an insured person under the national health insurance program to whom the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs apply, the provisions of Article 116-2, paragraph (3) of the Revised National Health Insurance Act apply by deeming the current facility of admission, and the hospital, etc. in which the person was under hospitalization, etc. before being admitted to the current facility of admission, each to be a hospital, etc. prescribed in paragraph (1) of that Article.